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Derek Gannon stepped from IT to COO of newspaper company Guardian News & Media and now moves the company into new horizons. Kevin O'Brien, head of IS at Comet sees networking as the key to the future of the electronics retail giant.
INDUSTRY > Energy And Metals > NEWS
14/05/2008
Outsourced Gov IT deals power on Serco
Serco hopes to remain powerful with increased business in nuclear power clean up
13/05/2008
British Gas sues Accenture for £182m over billing system
British Gas has served a writ on Accenture for £182 million, over a billing system which it said had “fundamental errors”.
17/03/2008
Good tech and management to aid Shell success
Major projects to increase production as bosses cite importance of IT
02/01/2008
Shell plans to outsource 3,200 IT jobs
Royal Dutch Shell is planning to outsource 3,200 IT jobs this year
19/12/2007
What's in store for IT and the CIO in 2008?
From Mobiles to Larry Ellison
13/12/2007
Data centre energy use will spike - global study
Small shifts in operational procedures could cut electricity consumption
12/12/2007
Profiting from carbon reduction measures
IBM technology is being used in a carbon emission monitoring tool that can enable companies to help pay for carbon reduction measures by selling emission reduction credits.
04/12/2007
Sino cyber spying tracked to Rolls Royce and Shell
Britain's MI5 intelligence agency is warning that cybercrime perpetrated by China is on the rise following hacking attacks against Rolls-Royce and Royal Dutch Shell.
16/11/2007
National Grid standardisation drive cuts costs
National Grid is standardising processes to make its business more efficient following the August closure of its acquisition of US energy firm KeySpan.
19/10/2007
UK drags feet on disaster recovery
Half of British businesses are not ready to implement disaster recovery plans despite taking pains to simulate the situation, according to a Symantec survey.
09/10/2007
Good and bad news for IT budgets
Worldwide IT spending will surpass £1.5 trillion in 2007, an 8% jump over last year, as rapid growth in developing countries is spreading IT investments more widely around the globe, Gartner reported today.
04/10/2007
Carbon offsetting policies slated
The environmental pressure group, Friends of the Earth (FOE), believes carbon offsetting schemes are a smokescreen to avoid real measures to counter climate change.
Carbon neutral datacentre in development
Hosting provider Coreix has made a 20-year commitment to the World Land Trust to become the UK’s first carbon neutral datacentre.
08/08/2007
Green Grid plots deliverables for the year
Instead of delivering on its datacentre power-efficiency work, the Green Grid has committed to delivering nine more studies by the end of the year.
13/07/2007
New computer efficiency specs loom
New Energy Star specifications for computers and related equipment that go into effect next week should save consumers and businesses more than $1.8 billion in energy costs over the next five years.
11/07/2007
EU orders energy star IT compliance
All public-sector purchasers of office equipment in Europe will in future be obliged to buy brands that carry the Energy Star logo, following a vote in the European Parliament.
10/07/2007
IT recruitment 'crisis' holding business back
A shortage of technology experts in the UK is holding back many businesses, a major industry body has warned.
UPDATE: Postini buy targets enterprise SaaS
Google has agreed to buy messaging security company Postini for $625 million (£310.8m), a move intended to increase the appeal of Google's hosted software applications among big businesses.
06/07/2007
Live Earth sites run on solar power
The web hosting company chosen to power the websites for this weekend's Live Earth concerts, AISO has been hired to power the websites from its 100% solar-powered web hosting facility in California, US.
02/07/2007
